Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 9 Control your girlfriend!

As soon as Aokiji stepped out of the bathroom after taking a shower, he heard someone calling him from outside the door.

Aokiji opened the door and stood a familiar figure in front of him, with blond hair, wearing a beige dress, and exuding a faint scent of soap.

Aokiji asked in surprise, "Why are you at my house?"

"Didn't you say you wanted to thank me for helping you catch the fish, so you'd treat me to dinner?"

I almost forgot about Aokiji.

After the two caught the fish, Aokiji decided to cook a dish from his hometown to reward Tsunade, which led to this scene.

"You know my family?" Aokiji asked curiously, recalling that he hadn't told Tsunade about his family.

"Just ask anyone," Tsunade said calmly. "I've been standing outside for so long, aren't you going to invite me in?"

To be honest, it was her first time visiting a boy her age's home, and she was quite interested in everything. However, after being invited inside by Aokiji, she was greatly disappointed. Looking at the messy room, she frowned slightly and said, "Your room is really messy."

Aokiji shrugged: "Boys' rooms are all like this. Besides, where's the comfort of your own doghouse compared to a golden nest or a silver nest?"

"What kind of strange analogy is that? Your room is such a mess, don't your family members scold you?"

Tsunade remembers that every time she left her things lying around, she would get a scolding from her mother, and it was her grandfather who would speak up for her.

Aokiji was silent for a moment: "It's okay, I live alone."

Although he was just a usurper, he possessed all of the host's memories and thus empathized with some of the host's experiences.

Living alone?

Tsunade noticed a framed photo on the bedside table. The photo showed a middle-aged woman and a boy with a cheerful smile.

It wasn't hard to tell from the boy's features that it was Aokiji standing before them. Considering the meaning behind his earlier words, a little deeper thought led to the following conclusion: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."

Aokiji interrupted, "Hey, why are you making that face? It's just making me uncomfortable. I still prefer your usual rebellious self, hehe..."

That sly smile made Tsunade angrily throw a punch: "You deserve a beating."

That being said, the punch wasn't very forceful.

Aokiji dodged to the side and teased, "You hit people all the time, you'll never be able to get married."

"Hmph. Anyway, I'm not going to marry you."

Aokiji shrugged. "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. I'm going to cook. I'll let you taste my cooking."

To win a woman's heart, you must first win her taste buds. Aokiji understands this well. Although he doesn't plan to pursue Tsunade anytime soon, it's still necessary to maintain a certain level of affection for her.

The pheasant washed the rice clean, then put it into a container for steaming rice, added a certain amount of water, covered the container, and started steaming the rice.

After doing all this, he took the fish out, sliced ​​off the fillets one by one, rinsed them several times to remove the blood, then put them in a large bowl, added starch, egg white, salt, chicken bouillon, cooking wine, pepper, etc., and kneaded them to remove the fishy smell and form a paste.

He performed the entire routine with great skill, and Tsunade watched with interest: "I didn't know you were so good at it. What are you going to do?"

"Pickled cabbage fish, this is a specialty dish I invented. I guarantee your mouth will water after you try it."

Aokiji shamelessly claimed the invention of this dish as his own, without batting an eye.

Tsunade scoffed: "You're bragging."

She didn't believe that a dish invented by a five-year-old could be that delicious.

"You just wait and see."

The fish meat was shredded into a paste, and then it would take at least ten minutes to marinate. During this time, Aokiji went to the market to buy some seasonings, and Tsunade, who was bored at home, simply followed him.

The two walked side by side on the road.

"Huh? Aren't those Aokiji and Tsunade?"

A surprised voice came from behind them, and Aokiji and Tsunade turned around at the same time.

It was a boy with white hair, and next to him was a boy with black hair.

The one in white looks frivolous, while the one in black looks very composed; it's hard to imagine the two of them together.

Upon seeing the two of them, Tsunade exclaimed in surprise, "Jiraiya, Orochimaru, I never expected to see you two together!"

"Shouldn't I be the one saying that, Aokiji, Tsunade?" Jiraiya glanced at the newcomers, seemingly noticing something, but without thinking, he grinned mischievously, "Could it be... you two are on a date?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a heavy grenades came flying at him, instantly freezing Jiraiya's smile. He immediately knelt down, clutching his stomach in pain.

"If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute," Tsunade said coldly.

"You stinky old hag." Jiraiya stubbornly refused to admit it.

"What did you say?!"

Tsunade, her brows furrowed in anger, grabbed Jiraiya by the collar and raised him up with one hand.

Jiraiya's pupils contracted, and he said in fear, "Aokiji, do something about your girlfriend!"

Ignoring Jiraiya's pleas for help, Aokiji turned to Orochimaru and asked curiously, "How come you two are together?"

Orochimaru said helplessly, "I just happened to run into him on the way, and then this guy kept bothering me, wanting to have a shuriken duel with me."

Aokiji nodded, indicating that he understood.

"And what about you?"

Orochimaru looked at Tsunade, who was beating up Jiraiya.

"Tsunade helped me catch a big fish, and to thank her, I'm going to cook a dish to reward her. Right now, the two of us are going to buy some ingredients for the dish."

Orochimaru nodded in understanding.

But then another question arises: why are Aokiji and Tsunade fishing together? When did their relationship become this close?

Could it be that, as Jiraiya just said, the two of them have gotten together...?

Despite his doubts, Orochimaru wasn't particularly interested in such gossip.

Compared to that, he was more interested in other things: "Aokiji-kun, are you free tomorrow? I have some questions I'd like to discuss with you."

The two officially met at the library. At first, Orochimaru didn't want to pay attention to Aokiji's attempts to get close to him.

However, after a few brief exchanges, Orochimaru discovered that Aokiji was a very interesting person who often came up with fresh and novel ideas. Over time, the two became acquainted and often discussed various issues in private.

"no problem."

Aokiji readily agreed.

Seeing the two chatting happily, Tsunade was surprised to release her grip on Jiraiya's collar. Orochimaru, who was always alone, was actually having close contact with Aokiji, who slept all day, and Aokiji was the dominant one between them.

"Are you close to Orochimaru?"

"It's alright," Aokiji said casually. "We often discuss some interesting issues."

"What kind of topic?"

Tsunade was curious about what kind of topics Orochimaru and Aokiji would usually discuss.

Aokiji smiled slightly, stretched out both hands, interlaced his fingers, and curved them into a circle: "For example, the world we live in might be a circle."

ha?

Upon hearing this, Tsunade was completely dumbfounded.

What exactly is this all about?

She could understand every word, but she couldn't understand what Aokiji was saying.

Orochimaru silently observed Tsunade's reaction. At first, he didn't think much better than Tsunade when he heard those words, and assumed Aokiji was talking nonsense. But he didn't expect that Aokiji would be able to analyze it logically and with evidence afterward. Suddenly, Orochimaru's impression of Aokiji as a sleepy person completely changed, and he was amazed.

"That's an interesting topic," Orochimaru said with a smile.

"You two spend all day researching this stuff?" Tsunade looked at the two of them strangely.

"Not entirely. We occasionally discuss other interesting things, like what our earliest human ancestor was?"

Tsunade asked, puzzled, "Weren't humans the ancestors of humans? What's there to discuss?"

"No, I mean even earlier, before humans fully evolved into humans."

When this topic came up, Orochimaru seemed to open up and talked non-stop: "Biodiversity evolves over time and with the passage of time and changes in the environment, and that's how humans came to be. In my conversation with Aokiji, I came to the conclusion that humans may have evolved from some kind of ape. Isn't that an interesting idea...?"

Tsunade:……

She was more interested in food than discussing these things.

Seeing that Tsunade seemed uninterested, Orochimaru simply stopped talking about it.

Different road non-phase plan.

As expected, only Aokiji could reach the depths of his soul.

Aokiji asked, "Orochimaru, have you eaten?"

"no."

"Since that's the case, why don't you come to my house for dinner? The fish is so big, Tsunade and I can't finish it, and it won't be fresh if it stays too long."

Orochimaru accepted the invitation without hesitation, nodding in agreement. He also wanted to see what Aokiji's cooking would be like.

After his parents passed away, he was in extreme pain for a period of time. Because he was afraid of experiencing that pain again, he closed himself off and became unwilling to communicate with others.

I can now communicate normally with people, all thanks to Aokiji's appearance.

At first, he found Aokiji's conversations interesting. As they continued to talk, the closed door gradually opened, allowing him to emerge from his inner shadow.

Thinking of this, Orochimaru smiled in a way that he himself barely noticed.

Aokiji noticed Orochimaru's expression and realized that, influenced by him, Orochimaru was slowly beginning to emerge from the shadows.

In the original work, Orochimaru's later cold-heartedness and disregard for human life were largely due to external influences.

While Orochimaru was still just beginning to emerge, Aokiji nipped the problem in the bud, which can be considered a good deed.

Jiraiya, who had been shoved in the face by Tsunade, watched the three of them leave, yelling, "Hey, hey, have you guys forgotten about me?"

(End of this chapter)